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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. THE BIBLE: ITS HIGHEST IDEAL REALIZED. THE lofty ideals of the Scripture trooped by us like a vision of angels. The songs they sang were above earthly exquisiteness, the words were beyond human thought, and the glory so great that all men veiled their faces. When they were gone there was a dying cadence in which we heard the words, Perfect, perfect, be ye therefore perfect. And though a great longing filled the soul the possibility and means of that perfection seemed as distant as the stars. Shall we be tantalized with words and ideals, and forever be denied their realization ? No, indeed. There has been lived among us a perfect life. The loftiest ideal has been actualized before us. Almost the first word the perfect Man said when entering upon his ministry was this: It is necessary for us to fulfill all righteousness. Let us see how it was done and in what it consists. We will all not only concede but assert that anyperfection worthy of the name must have all the traits of what we call manliness. We are not angels, nor do we wish to be; but we are men and want to be the best kind. There must be in every manly man what we call courage. It is one of those basal qualities that we share with such animals as the bulldog. It is a bold fronting of all things in the universe, feeling that we are born masters and can look every created thing in the face and stand uncowed. When the great Nelson was only fourteen years of age he attacked a polar bear with nothing but a handspike. To his captain reproving him for it afterward he said, I know not Mr. Fear. If there ever was a life of perfect courage it was that of Christ. At twelve years of age he had the mental courage to face all the doctors of the law in the temple. Entering upon his ministry at Nazareth he dec...

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